Retail apps win the holiday season one more time this year. 92% of Millenials use smartphones during offline holiday shopping, mostly to compare prices, research products online, find special deals and store locations. More and more customers rely on smartphones for making purchases, so brands and retailers can benefit greatly from creating mobile apps that will provide additional information and services and increase loyalty.

As wearable user adoption and app development grows worldwide, particularly in metropolitan developer hotbeds such as Toronto and Montreal, marketers will take advantage of this opportunity in order to optimize content consumption. Wearables should be seen as a device with extraordinary reach and interactivity between the user and content…

Watson opened up its famous, Jeopardy!-champ-destroying Watson computer to developers globally via their Bluemix programme less than a year ago. They are investing a billion dollars into their new developer programme over the next few years, making…

Apple App store has been the repository of many apps that make Apple iPhone so much useful and interesting! However like most other mobile devices iPhone also requires a continuous development (read, evolution) as well as use of various efficient, updated, and advanced apps that can take the experience of the iPhone users to a different level altogether.

The problem is that the task cut out for the prospective developers and designers is not the easiest of the lot and they have to…

In reading The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times last week, I couldn't help but take note of the fact that in the same day, companies involved in the early days of The Mobile and App Revolution (i.e. Slack and Box) were highlighted for their leadership position in the messaging/collaboration (Slack) and file storage (Box) space. Trying to take a 25,000 foot view of what these companies represent in the context of mobile B2B, I couldn't help but think that while they have hit on…

I find it hard to recall a time when I didn’t google, send a text message or even deposit a check without leaving my office. The last two decades have generated innumerable technological innovations that have enhanced our daily lives, not to mention the way many companies conduct business.

Industries across the globe scrupulously try to understand if and how any of these new tools and devices can improve operations. Will the cloud help streamline processes? The internet of everything…

In the last few years, the rules of customer engagement have changed completely. This is due, in part, to the fact that customers can engage with brands in an unprecedented number of ways on a dizzying array of platforms, devices, and applications. For example, we might receive an offer via email, view the details on a smartphone, then visit a nearby store to touch the product. After that, we might go home and research a little more online, maybe engaging in a chat session with a customer…

Developing an enterprise app in the cloud offers organizations a wide range of advantages over the traditional app development lifecycle. From fewer costs to more control, the benefits extend across people, processes and technology.

While the benefits of cloud-based app development are clear, realizing them is not always simple. Early adopter organizations have discovered the challenges inherent in the process, and learned from their experiences. The following seven snafus describe…

While it may not have been as iconic culturally significant as its 1984 Super Bowl ad, Apple's "Think different" marketing campaign from 1997 to 2002 remains the stuff of advertising legend. (How many ads do you remember from last month's game between the Patriots and Seahawks?)…

There’s no way around it- traveling for business is complex and often bumpy. From the moment you walk out your front door, you get passed off from the shuttle or parking lot to the airport, then on to the airplane, then on to some form of ground transportation at the destination, then on to the hotel, then on to meetings or sight -seeing, and then you do it all over again when you head back home. On top of this, you’re in an unfamiliar city and schedules can suddenly change. Of course, even…

Nobody cares about mobile security — at least the majority of app developers and users don’t. Gartner recently announced the alarming prediction that more than 75 percent of mobile apps will fail basic security tests this year.

For anyone following the security game, that number shouldn’t be particularly shocking. Apathy about mobile security has been common among app developers and users since the days of the…

As we power on towards the new and exciting future the Internet of Things (IoT) promises, I'm reminded of the single greatest issue we all face, more challenging than the networks, more problematic than the security challenges, and certainly more likely to impact adoption than user acceptance.

That challenge is single function platforms or devices. Consumers are unlikely to be willing to carry or use more than 3 to 5 independent devices, especially wearable devices. For example, I use…

Most of the public discussion on the impact of cloud on our day-to-day work has thus far been on how management and provisioning of infrastructure is changing or on how new possibilities for application delivery are now available, including faster IT delivery with new functionality at a lower price point. But there’s another important change occurring right now, and it involves the way IT services are procured. As the demand for cloud-based resources moves from the business units to central…

Replacing the seldom-used "Popular By Me" tab in the App Store, "Explore," one of iOS 8’s most intriguing new additions, emphasizes browsing and discoverability through the introduction of subdivided categories and curated collections. Existing broad categories like “food” are now broken down into granular subcategories such as “pizza,” “beer,” and “pasta,” and rotating, handpicked compilations like “Gorgeous Games” and “Fun with Filters” appear on Explore’s home page.

2014 was a big year for both Google and Microsoft. Satya Nadella stepped in as Microsoft’s new CEO and set out to change the company’s image by focusing on cloud and mobile-first strategies. Google has continued to pour more resources into Google Apps, rebranding this year as Google for Work.

Cloud office is undoubtedly an exciting space and this is an exciting time to be a player in the ecosystem. Organizations are moving to the cloud and changing how they operate and because of it,…

Mobile development has come a long way since its inception. Feature rich mobile applications that were merely a dream in last decade; are now a click away - and you can now turn them into reality, after genuine efforts though. All you need is an innovative partner who can articulate your thoughts and assist you in reaching the goals – the ones that you desire and deserve.

We all would agree that mobile development was not easy in those days as well. And with the changing requirements…

In its day, mobile device management (MDM) was touted as theenterprise mobility management solution for the growing number of employees wielding company-issued smartphones. However, as business and technology landscapes evolve together – and the appetite for bring your own device (BYOD) continues to grow – the role of…

It’s always fun this time of year to think about the last year and prognosticate for the next. Last year, I was doubtful around the wearables market in my predictions, but it looks like 2015 will be a better hope with the Apple Watch coming out on the market. The focus of my predictions last year was about platform and hardware and the transition of usage from desktops and…